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"Google has been very bad": Trump warns Google may be "shut down" in rant (www.salon.com)

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[-] tortina_original@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

Does he really speak like that? 😳

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 40 points 3 months ago

Is this your first exposure to Trump?

[-] tortina_original@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not in the news. But I am not American, I don't watch what Trump has to say (or rather, I barely watch news for years).

Years ago I used to hear him talk while he was president and it was really cringe but this transcript from the first reply just seems a bit surreal. Insane, rather.

Edit: I was curious enough to go visit the article URL and take a look at the video but there doesn't seem to be a video of the Fox clip they write about (or ublock/etc hide it). Maybe it's for the best... 😁

[-] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 months ago

It's for the best. Listening to him makes you lose iq points. If he talks about anything you know about it is also likely to make you angry.

[-] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

His speeches caused serious headaches for translators the world over. How exactly do you translate his incoherent ramblings into another language?

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

Crap, I hope they've been vaccinated at least.

[-] Ranvier@sopuli.xyz 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes this is the direct quote the article refers to. He rambles nonsense, often self contradicting, and then people in the media try to fashion it into coherent points for him, leading to a fake impression of competency, misleading the public and voters. This is the man who had to have his national security briefings summarized into a few brief bullet points with pictures, and he was apparently still unable to read them.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Exactly. He should be block quoted more often and never given the benefit of the doubt. It's incoherent bullshit.

[-] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

He also charted a hurricane with a sharpie! Usually we ask the children not to draw on the adults things but alas…

[-] SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it's true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that's why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it's not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it's four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven't figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it's gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

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